Minneapolis Stadium Roof

The roof is so minimal that the vikings can still.

Minneapolis stadium roof.

Humphrey metrodome last month. The roof that sits over the 1 75 million square foot stadium is one of the lightest stadium roofs in the world despite its snow load requirements. The proposal also included funding solutions for 95 million in renovations to the target center. It s slanted design allows it to handle heavy snowfalls.

The 248 000 square feet of roof sits atop 10 story glass doors facing downtown minneapolis which will open and close. In all the 460 000 square feet of roof and glass walls will be. The metrodome was similar in design to the former rca dome and to bc place though bc place was reconfigured with a retractable roof in 2010. The stadium had a fiberglass fabric roof that was self supported by air pressure and was the third major sports facility to have this feature the first two being the pontiac silverdome and the carrier dome.

The minneapolis plan was for a fixed roof stadium costing an estimated 895 million. Frigid air whipped through a desolate metrodome on monday as crews began inspecting the minnesota stadium s nearly three decades old roof after it collapsed under the weight of heavy snow that. The roof is made up of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene a clear plastic. Minnesota s etfe roof will not be lighted but the spaces around it will giving it a glow of changing colors including vikings purple.

This year the performance of a lifetime goes to all those on the front lines the brave nurses doctors healthcare workers hospital staff and first. After hennepin county stopped their pursuit of a vikings stadium the city of minneapolis submitted a plan for a vikings stadium at the downtown metrodome site. It is 240 000 square feet making it the largest in north america. The high tech plastic roof on the new minnesota vikings stadium looks like something from a household kitchen a wobbly paper thin surface that could be used as a cutting board.